I guess it was two Sundays ago, I was driving around town running errands when I noticed a stronger than usual breeze. It made the road signs sway and whipped the stoplights around so that I thought for sure one would plant itself in my windshield as I waited for a green light. It wasn’t long before I rolled up all my windows, despite the heat, to avoid being torn out of the car. “Wow,” I thought, “this is some kind of wind. It isn’t even really like being in wind; it’s like being under water. It’s an air tsunami.” That’s what it felt like anyway. But I had big plans and things to accomplish that day, so I continued motoring amid the airborne newspapers, siding, small dogs, and garbage.
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Six months ago I was preparing for spring quarter classes and making my first tentative slices into the life of a sushi apprentice. I was still curled snugly inside the student bubble where it’s easy to say, “Oh, I have no idea what I’m doing after graduation” with a shrug. During my graduation ceremony I waited tables. The unmarried, un-debted life of a waiter is pretty comfortable. Comfortable to the point that I woke up one day terrified that I’d never leave it. Since then I’ve thrust open the door to a few new opportunities, one of which now has me pricing one-way plane tickets to Japan.
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For the fifth time in five years I put all of my things into boxes and moved them into a new place. For the past year I was living in a three story house with 10 complete strangers. Reality television would have you believe that this is a surreal, sensational experience. In reality life, however, people have jobs and the most heated skirmishes occur over bathroom territory and messy kitchens. Fortunately, the worst I ran into was a mysterious bathroom wrecker and a red bean thief.
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